Raw Jew-hatred, New York style
Jew-baiting rhetoric emerges in a political campaign. On the Upper West Side of NYC.
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View ArticleHomelessness is not leprosy
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View ArticleTrump flunks the Holocaust. Duterte proves it.
Trump's overture to Duterte is a moral obscenity.
View ArticleThe Handmaid’s Tale re-spins Genesis. And that’s scary.
The Handmaid's Tale is terrifying. It is also scandalously biblical.
View ArticleIs ‘Norman’ good for the Jews?
Richard Gere's "Norman" will make Jews cringe. That's because we know him.
View ArticleWill JFK’s grandson become our first Jewish president?
A new category: Jews-by-surprise. It says more about us than about them.
View ArticleYou need to see ‘A Serious Man’ again
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View ArticleWhen a synagogue burns
More than a synagogue burned on the Lower East Side this week. A legacy of compassion and hope went up in smoke as well.
View ArticleWho let Jared and Ivanka fly on Shabbat?
(RNS) Letting Ivanka and Jared fly on Shabbat was bad Judaism. And bad for the Jews.
View ArticleThe most Jewish thing that JFK ever said
Was John F. Kennedy a Jewish theologian? Almost.
View ArticleHow is ‘Sgt. Pepper’ like the Torah?
What happens when you mis-hear a classic piece of rock music?
View ArticleDoes Israel have dirty hands?
A fifty year old poster raises new questions -- about Israel and power.
View ArticleIs Batman Jewish?
(RNS) Trauma, a secret identity — there was always more 'Torah' in Batman than I realized.
View ArticleDoes Judaism = liberalism?
Whether or not Judaism is liberalism, it still must speak to the world.
View ArticleWho is pro-life — really?
Who do we "need" semiautomatic assault rifles? Isn't "dead" enough?
View ArticleHow cultural appropriation became good for the Jews
Let's hear it for cultural appropriation. Without it, Judaism could not exist.
View ArticleI love Israel. Her government: not so much
(RNS) A few 'inconvenient truths' about Israel and non-Orthodox Jews.
View ArticleWhy they should change the names of Hollywood streets
What do we do about places named for Confederate generals? Change the names.
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